190 Spiritual Astrology
They conduct the entire work with the aid of two of their
chief disciples. They themselves work as the linking forces
between the men of the new race and the dwellers of the
cosmic plane. The seven stars of the Great Bear, the
Pleiades, Sirius, Castor, Pollux and the stars of the judges
are linked up with the new race through the sages Agastya
and Vas’ishta. Na-rada will make his appearance as a star
and assist Sanat Kuma-ra to lead the disciples of the path
of devotion.
Many other details of this age are thoroughly
worked out in the veiled allegories of the Pura-n.a-s and the
cryptic passages of the Ve-da. The ruling sign of India will
alter from Capricorn to Aquarius and this is done through
experiences of great pain, trouble, trial and privation,
characteristic of Kali Yuga. The morality of the population
of India goes down to the lowest level (as is prophesied
in the Pura-n.a-s) before the sign changes. Rank materialism,
disbelief, lawlessness, disorder, revolution and bloodshed
are the features of India in the Kali age before the change
of sign. The advent of the new race under the rulership of
the Manu is marked by a spiritual wedlock between India
and France. (Note that the ruling sign of France is Leo.)
Some astrologers argue that the present period is only
in the first quarter of Kali Yuga. This is because of the fact
that Kali Yuga with its duration of 432,000 years started from
about the time of the Maha-bha-ratha war. Here is a blind. The
durations of the yugas given in Pura-n.a-s are not false, but the
number of zeros in the numerical values of yuga-s contained
the top secrets. They are based on certain hidden truths of
astronomical phenomena and their corresponding effects as
astrological influences. The purpose and mode of application
on each level of understanding governs the number of zeros